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Quotes from Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams — Tom DeMarco

born 1940 United States

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The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987)

People under pressure don’t work better; they just work faster.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987)

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987)

While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom DeMarco (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.